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Cannes winner Close jettisons promising, sensitive study of teenage male friendship for heavy-handed tragedy

Close, by controversial Belgian director Lukas Dhont, is a poignant vision of a friendship falling apart in real time under the pressure of the transition to high school — forcing a fatal rift.

ABC News · Feb 20, 2023

Boyhood collides with masculinity in Oscar-nominated 'Close'

Set in the Belgian countryside, Lukas Dhont's “Close” is about a friendship between two 13-year-old boys whose tender intimacy is tested, tragically, when one seeks to fit in with more macho boys

The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2023

Review: Bring tissues to the Oscar-nominated 'Close,' but also a little skepticism

"Close" badly wants your tears and, on occasion, it earns them. A flawlessly acted, precision-tooled heartbreaker from 31-year-old Belgian writer-director Lukas Dhont, it tells an Edenic love story, conjuring a rapturous state of intimacy that gives way to a tragic fall from grace. What gives the movie its faint whisper…

Los Angeles Times · Jan 27, 2023